Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that sets written material into type; a typesetter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, one who sets types; a type-setter.
- noun A composing or type-setting machine.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who composes or sets in order.
- noun (Print.) One who sets type and arranges it for use.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who
sets type ; atypesetter . - noun One who, or that which,
composes or sets in order.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one who sets written material into type
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But as early as the twelfth century we find the term compositor used by Johannes
MUSICAL GENIUS EDWARD E. LOWINSKY 1968
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Carlyles writing was so bad that one compositor is said to have left Edinburgh in order to get away from the job of setting it up.
As I Please 1947
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Is this the man who would have equality amongst all his fellow-creatures, and who calls a compositor a printer's devil?
Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) technology for controlling some of the look of a Web site; and a feature called the compositor that handles complicated layout circumstances better.
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A Michael Nyman (Londres, 1944) se le conoce mundialmente por su faceta de compositor.
Creaciones audiovisuales de Michael Nyman en La Pedrera y la Galería SENDA | [bauen] 2009
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Should he sprinkle his pages with sympathetic adjectives, so many to the paragraph, as the country compositor sprinkles commas?
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The one compositor who could read Carlyle's manuscript had died, and it became necessary for him to have someone who would make fair copies of his writings for the press.
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Sir Paul Best of the Best of musicica - Bas, acord, Piano, singer compositor
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Steve is a book designer, page compositor and layout artist and you can find examples of his work at Tiano Design.
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Mr. Shepard acts first as something of a compositor, assembling facts and background in a rapid-fire first-person voice.
Strained Separations Sam Sacks 2011
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